Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 85
So he said to the bench, “If you are to help me leave the earth move up and down three times.”
Who acts: Buddha, bench · What happens: say, be, help, leave, move up · To what, where: bench, Buddha, earth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Chinese Tea-house Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Buddha, bench), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 bench | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bench | det |
| 6 | bench | bench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 move | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 move | punct |
| 9 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 are | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 are | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 move | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 help | mark |
| 13 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 are | xcomp |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 help | obj |
| 15 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 help | xcomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 earth | det |
| 17 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leave | obj |
| 18 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 19 | up | up | ADV | _ | 18 move | advmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 down | cc |
| 21 | down | down | ADV | _ | 19 up | conj |
| 22 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 times | nummod |
| 23 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 move | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Buddha | the bench | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to bench=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | does a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | the bench = bench | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | help in a quote | to-infinitive | the bench = bench not said here | Buddha | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | leave in a quote | infinitive | Buddha not said here | the earth | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Theme | ||||
| 5 | move up in a quote | present | time | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Project Gutenberg book 75089 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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